Tracy Chapman has filed a absorb contravention clothing adjoin Nicki Minaj, accusing her of appropriation the lyrics and melody from the 1988 song “Baby Can I Hold You.”

According to the suit, Minaj approved permission over the summer to sample the song in a clue advantaged “Sorry,” which was to arise on Minaj’s anthology “Queen.” Chapman has a absolute action adjoin acceptance her assignment to be sampled, and she banned the request, through her representatives.

Minaj alone the clue from the album, but according to the suit, she provided it to two New York City radio stations, which played it on air in August. Chapman alleges that the song played on Hot 97, and that portions of it appeared on “The Breakfast Club,” on Power 105.1. The song is now accessible online, including on YouTube.

The Minaj clue uses about all of the lyrics of “Baby Can I Hold You” as a chorus, which is again alert afterwards aboriginal rap verses. The song appeared on Chapman’s self-titled admission album, which additionally included “Fast Car.”

In July, Minaj’s administrator emailed Chapman’s representatives, adage that Minaj was “inspired” by Chapman’s art and capital to allocution about application her work. A few canicule later, Minaj tweeted that she “had no clue” that the song “sampled the fable #TracyChapman,” according to the suit. The cheep has back been deleted.

The clothing alleges that Minaj “has acquired Chapman to acquire abundant injury, loss, and accident as a aftereffect of her wrongdoing.” Chapman is gluttonous injunctive abatement and damages.

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